Intro
Dear friends,
Welcome to our W3 Poetry Prompt, which goes live on Wednesdays at The Skeptic’s Kaddish.
You may click here for a fuller explanation of W3; but here’s the ‘tldr’ version:
Part I
The main ingredient of W3 is a weekly poem written by a Poet of the Week (PoW), which participants respond to in verse.
Part II
The second ingredient is a writing guideline (or two) provided by the PoW. Guidelines may include, but are not limited to: word counts, poetic forms, inclusion of specific words, and use of particular poetic devices.
Part III
After five days, when the prompt closes, the PoW shall select one participant’s poem as the W3 prompt for the following week, and its author becomes the next PoW.
Simple enough, right?
Okie dokie ~ Let’s do this thing!
I. The prompt poem:
‘Welcome Home’, a double Tetractys by Paula Light
Lights Distant Twinkle cold Dead stars flame out The night shivers in its lonely orbit Breath travels slowly in the frosty air Home glows closer Loving hearts Welcome Lights
II. Paula’s prompt guidelines
- Write about a breakup (not necessarily romantic) in any poetic form, not to exceed 20 lines.
III. Submit: Click on ‘Mr. Linky’ below
In order to participate and share a poem, open up this blog post, outside of the WordPress reader. At the bottom, just below these words, you will see a small rectangular graphic with the words ‘Mr Linky’. Click on that to submit.
Submissions are open for 5 days, until Monday, January 2, 10:00 AM (GMT+3)
Last week’s W3 poem
This week’s W3 prompt poem (above), composed by Paula Light, was written in response to last week’s W3 prompt poem, which D. Avery wrote:
‘Dream Seeds’, an atom poem by D. Avery
child of woods knows trees whisper to her hears animals speak seeks her star dream seeds gathers to sow feeds on words grows sings becomes a bird soars returns knows
The Skeptic's Kaddish 🇮🇱 
[…] was surprised and happy to be named POW (Poet of the Week) for the Wea’ve Written Weekly poetry prompt by the last week’s POW Paula Light. This week my prompt was to write a 14 line poem using any […]
Hi, hope am not too late, here’s my entry https://wordpress.com/post/apoetonmotion.wordpress.com/216
hi!
Unfortunately, Last week’s prompt is now closed, but the new one will be open tomorrow (until the following Monday).
Also, the URL you provided doesn’t work. What you need to do is go directly to your blog (not the backend through WordPress) and go to the page with the poem – then copy-paste that URL into Mr. Linky (rather than in the comments section on this post).
Thanks!
David
thank you, am still trying to navigate through here
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Here’s mine, David
https://lesleyscoble.com/2023/01/02/sleeping-dragonflies-a-haiku/
🤍 Lesley 🤍
[…] prompt guidelines for the W3 Weekly Poetry Prompt by Poet of the Week Paula Light is to write about a breakup.(not necessarily romantic) in any […]
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[…] about a breakup (not necessarily romantic) in any poetic form, not to exceed 20 lines. Go to The Skeptic’s Kaddish to link up and to read the other poets’ […]
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Phew. I made it. Got kind of busy for a few days, will try to catch up with reading the poems of this prompt.
💙 D. 💙 ~ I extended the regular deadline for a day
Here’s mine:
https://brandonellrich.com/2022/12/31/breakup/
🤍 Brandon 🤍
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[…] Written in response to W3 prompt # 35, hosted by David […]
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Hi David,
Here’s my response,
https://meandmyliterature.wordpress.com/2022/12/31/broken-pieces-rhyme/
💖 Jane 💖